j 4to I am myBelo"Peds, ~ lSEa.XIX.igives himfelfe tohis Spoufe. So Chrill is mine, , himfelte is mine, and my felfe am Chrifts, he bathmy foule,my affe~ionsJ mybody, and all, he hath apropriety in me, ~mcl apeculiarity in me, he bath my atfeClion and love tot he ucrer– mo!l:, as I have his, for there is anentercourfe in thefe words. 3· Then againe,they imply mutuall familiarity, Familiarity. Chl'ifi is familiar to my foule and I to Chrilt,he difcovers himfelfe to tne in the fecree of his love, and ·I difcover my felfe ro him inprayer ! and medi[arion, opening my foule to him upon all occafion.s. Gods cl<lild(en have a fpirJt of praycr,which is a fpirit offellowlhip, and talkes (as it were)to God in Chrilt; Itis the language of a new borne Chrill:ian, he cries to his Far her, there is a kind of f.-'Imiliariry between him and 1 his God in Chrill:., who gives the emrance and . 1 accdfeto God, fo that where there is n0t akind of familiarity in prayer aRd opening ofthe foule to Chrifi upon all occafions)theteisnot this ho– ly communion. Thofe that are lilot given to prayer,the.y rannoe io tPuth fpeake. thefe words, ,as the Church dorh here, Jam my Belo~edsand mj BeJovld u mine, for they imply fweet fami- ' lliarity. 4· . Then againe they imply mutualllikeneffeone Mutualllt~ener to another, he is mine and I am his, the one is a glafl'e to the other, Chrit1: fees himfdfe.in me, I fee my felfe in him, for this is the i1fue of fpi– ritualllove, efpecially that it breeds likeneffe and refemblance of the partyloved in the foule , ' · that 1
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